Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Glupteba is a rootkit that steals passwords and other access credentials, disables security software, and tries to compromise other devices on the victim network — such as Internet routers and media storage servers — for use in relaying spam or other malicious traffic. attorney to pay Google’s legal fees.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2020

A threat actor is offering for sale in a darkweb black-market internal documents of the Indian defence contractor Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML). As part of the regular monitoring of cybercrime forums and markets in the deep-web and darkweb , Cyble researchers spotted a threat actor named as R3dr0x who leaked (BEML) internal documents.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Before it was taken offline sometime in the past 12 hours, the database contained millions of records, including the username, password and private encryption key of each mSpy customer who logged in to the mSpy site or purchased an mSpy license over the past six months. ” Some of those “points of access” were mine.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2019

The attack chain starts with phishing email using as an attachment the Excel document that downloads the DoublePulsar backdoor used to deliver the EternalBlue exploit. Experts reported that the Beapy malware also uses the popular post-exploitation tool Mimikatz to steal passwords from Windows systems.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

As much as I love this one friend of mine, nothing is private when we’re together. Don’t authenticate yourself to anyone unless you are in control of the interaction, don’t over-share on social media, be a good steward of your passwords, safeguard any documents that can be used to hijack your identity, and freeze your credit.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The first half of 2019 saw a 10-fold increase in the number of password-protected objects, such as documents and archive files, being used to deliver malware. In 2017, password-protected archives accounted for only 0.08% of all malicious objects.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. 15, 2022, LastPass said an investigation into the August breach determined the attacker did not access any customer data or password vaults.

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Cyber Info Veritas

AUGUST 9, 2018

With that said, most us use our personal computers for social interactions, online purchases and banking, learning, storing private photos and documents. Set up a master password for your browser Because you may unknowingly download and open malware and Trojans, it helps to set up a master password for your browser.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2020

“Using vished credentials, cybercriminals mined the victim company databases for their customers’ personal information to leverage in other attacks. If you receive a vishing call, document the phone number of the caller as well as the domain that the actor tried to send you to and relay this information to law enforcement.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A few of the hosts are running with multiple mining containers; moreover, the containers are dynamic in nature hence the data varies a bit everytime we scan the open APIs. Docker has made it too easy to start mining with the help of miner images uploaded on the Docker Image Repository – Hub. Password – phantompain.

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Brandeis Records Manager

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Also, as I’ve suggested , fact denial and fake news—land mines under the librarian’s definition of info literacy—should be serious concerns for the RIM and IG professional communities as well, given our core principles of integrity and transparency. Should it exclude avoiding rogue apps, weak passwords, and phishing attempts?

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Rather than dropping ransomware on victims’ machines and hoping they would pay to regain access to their files, cyber criminals were increasingly cutting out the middle man and infecting victims’ machines with software that used their spare processing power to mine for cryptocurrency. Users were encouraged to change their passwords.

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 7, 2020

Yesterday, we looked back at cases related to passwords and Fifth Amendment protection, non-party discovery and mobile and messaging. Here is one such case from 2019: Court Denies Defendant’s Motion to Compel Production of Documents and Metadata : In Washington v. GEO Group, Inc. Washington District Judge Robert J.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 30, 2022

Four and a half years ago now, I rolled out version 2 of HIBP's Pwned Passwords that implemented a really cool k-anonymity model courtesy of the brains at Cloudflare. Actually, the multiple problems, the first of which is that it's just way too fast for storing user passwords in an online system.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

I can't blame this on the teddy bears themselves, rather the fact that the MongoDB holding all the collected data was left publicly facing without a password. Yeah, me either, because most of mine are probably like yours: the simplest electrical devices in the house. 24 subnet. . Everything came over just fine. except the doorbell.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 17, 2024

Hash functions are also frequently used to verify user passwords without needing to create a vulnerable client-side database of private passwords. Instead, services like online banking portals will only collect and store the hashes of user passwords.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Back in September, a number of people pointed me at Experian's "FREE Dark Web Email Scan" (capitalisation is theirs, not mine) because on the surface of it, it seemed similar to my Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) service. Report URI needs a password as well because you need to be able to login. That is absolutely ridiculous!

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 4, 2017

In this case, that secret is her password and, well, just read it: My staff log onto my computer on my desk with my login everyday. To be fair to Nadine, she's certainly not the only one handing her password out to other people. In fact I often forget my password and have to ask my staff what it is. No one else has access.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

After selecting a sample of 50,000 open printers and creating a custom printing script, we managed to print out PDF documents on 27,944 unprotected devices. Or they can simply use these printers to mine cryptocurrency, ramping up their victims’ electricity bills in the process. Change the default password. How we did it.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Phishing attacks: Deceptive techniques, such as fraudulent emails or websites, trick individuals into revealing sensitive information like credit card and payment information, passwords, or login credentials. Cryptojacking : Unauthorized use of a computer’s processing power to mine cryptocurrencies.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 15, 2019

The documents suggest that Truglia stole from his father and even a dead man — all the while lamenting that his fabulous new wealth brought him nothing but misery. However, many online services let customers reset their password merely by using their mobile phones. “Gradually, I got to know Nick.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 11, 2022

They sneak around the fringes of the enterprise, seeking a way inside, which they might accomplish by tricking a user into clicking on a malicious link, opening an infected attachment or providing credentials and passwords, or perhaps by hacking an unpatched or zero-day vulnerability. Read next: Best Incident Response Tools and Software.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

Collection #1 is a set of email addresses and passwords totalling 2,692,818,238 rows. In total, there are 1,160,253,228 unique combinations of email addresses and passwords. This is when treating the password as case sensitive but the email address as not case sensitive. There are 21,222,975 unique passwords. It'll be 99.x%

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 15, 2023

Here's mine: One of the problems the dashboard approach helps tackle is unsubscribing on an individual domain basis. Onboarding documentation. This doesn't fix the pain of doing it once, but it does mean that it's now a one-off pain. Vendor assessments.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 19, 2018

If you have an efficient function that executes quickly it can be extremely cost effective as I recently demonstrated with the Pwned Passwords figures : So here's the hard facts - I'm dipping into my pocket every week to the tune of. for you guys to do 54M searches against a repository of half a billion passwords ??

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

VAMOSI: Once the classified documents were found online, there was an effort -- both by law enforcement and by the media -- to identify the leaker. It turns out some of the classified documents were photographed on a marble countertop, like in a kitchen countertop. You had to figure out how to configure Kermit, get passwords to get on.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 12, 2022

A colleague of mine used to travel around to sans training conferences across the country. But if you move on in this, our application process, you submit some documentation. Sandelius: That's a good question. We have spent some years trying to figure that out. We hosted lunch and learned to talk about our programs. It's amazing.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 18, 2019

All documentation on the API page now reflects that and also reflects a few breaking changes, the first of which is obviously the requirement for auth. Same too for Pwned Passwords - there's absolutely zero impact on that service. When using V3, any unauthenticated requests will result in an HTTP 401.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 2, 2020

The 43 companies we met with all received an information memorandum (IM): An Information Memorandum (IM) is a package of documents created by business owners for prospective buyers. We spent months preparing the document, regularly working until all hours to flesh it out as comprehensively as possible. of the company.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The opening para in the newspaper doesn't do justice to the sentiment of the document which was more around helping kids understand that there are different views to how each of us likes to have our images shared and frankly, that's a good discussion to have. And importantly, teaching them how to use secure passwords with @1Password ??

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